Life includes many major culminating moments: we finish the big work project, receive the award, watch the kids leave home, go on the vacation, win the title, or enter retirement. These experiences can come with enormous fulfillment…for a while. And then, we might ask ourselves: Now what? In this episode, we explore that question, including how we can relate to the past, integrate learning, turn toward the future, and age well through life.
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Being Well Podcast: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Dr. Richard Schwartz
Learn about Internal Family Systems with Richard Schwartz and discover a wonderful path to healing and growth while repairing your relationship with all of your parts.
Being Well Podcast: Connecting With Your True Nature
We explore how we can get back in touch with the person we were when we were young. And, alongside that, how we can rediscover our “true nature:” who we were before the world got in the way.
Being Well Podcast: Mindful Practice in the Real World with Stephen Snyder
How can we bring useful qualities of contemplative practice into our normal, everyday lives as people living in the real world? In this episode, meditation teacher and author Stephen Snyder joins Forrest and me to explore that overarching question, alongside a variety of topics related to “not-self,” the true nature of the self, and self-transcendence.
Being Well Podcast: Accepting Our Needs
Everyone has needs, there’s no avoiding them. In order to “be well” we need to meet those needs. But in our Western culture being “needy” is viewed as a weakness, and it can be painful to accept that we have needs.
Being Well Podcast: The Optimism Bias and Influencing Other People with Dr. Tali Sharot
Are people optimistic by nature? And how can we use that answer to influence our behavior, or the behavior of other people? Today Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Tali Sharot to explore the optimism bias, how optimism can exist alongside negativity, and how we can influence others more effectively.
Being Well Podcast: 10 Most Essential Lessons, Part 2
In the second part of our conversation on our 10 most essential lessons for a great life, Forrest and I explore accepting difference, open heartedness, impermanence, and more.
Being Well Podcast: 10 Most Essential Lessons, Part 1
What are the most essential lessons we’ve ever learned? Today Forrest and I explore the first half of our 10 most important practices, skills, techniques, and reflections for the long road of life.
Being Well Podcast: Authentic Happiness with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar
How can we find happiness even when times are challenging? Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar joins Forrest and me to explore authentic happiness, accepting difficult emotions, and giving yourself permission to be human.
Being Well Podcast: How to Change Your Brain
What can we do to achieve the ‘holy grail’ of personal growth – lasting change in our hearts, minds, and behaviors? How can we change the brain for good? That’s the focus of this episode: a full primer on the science of ‘positive neuroplasticity,’ including a lot of practical advice on how we can take control of our brain’s growth over time.
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